02599nam a22003257a 4500 pucpr 20240828123034.0 060309r1981 maua bi 001 0 eng 9780877731931 978159030 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda CARIBET BH301.C84 D62 1981 117 22 Doczi, György, 1909- The Power of Limits : proportional harmonies in nature, art, and architecture. / György Doczi. txt United States of America : Shambhala Boulder , 1981. 150 p. : ill. ; 25cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Originally published: Boulder, Colo. : Shambhala Publications ; [New York] : Distributed in the U.S. by Random House, 1981. Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-146) and index. "One of the delights of life is the discovery and rediscovery of patterns of order and beauty in nature -- designs revealed by slicing through a head of cabbage or an orange, the forms of shells and butterfly wings. These images are awesome not just for their beauty alone, but because they suggest an order underlying their growth, a harmony existing in nature. What does it mean that such an order exists; how far does it extend? The Power of Limits was inspired by those simple discoveries of harmony. The author went on to investigate and measure hundreds of patterns--ancient and modern, minute and vast. His discovery, vividly illustrated here, is that certain proportions occur over and over again in all these forms. Patterns are also repeated in how things grow and are made--by the dynamic union of opposites--as demonstrated by the spirals that move in opposite directions in the growth of a plant. The joining of unity and diversity in the discipline of proportional limitations creates forms that are beautiful to us because they embody the principles of the cosmic order of which we are a part; conversely, the limitlessness of that order is revealed by the strictness of its forms. The author shows how we, as humans, are included in the universal harmony of form, and suggests that the union of complementary opposites may be a way to extend that harmony to the psychological and social realms as well " -- Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Aesthetics. Proportion. Nature (Aesthetics) lcc 6 BH301.C84 General D62 1981 267686 267686 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2017-09-18 Amazon 39.95 3 3 General BH301.C84 D62 1981 91000000053603 2024-11-08 10:14:04 2024-10-25 1 49.95 2017-09-18 6 Presupuesto 2017-2018